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I’ve update Travel Streamr so that it can now use FireEagle and it works great! It does not store your FireEagle credentials at all, so you’d have to continually authorise. This is intentional as I want to store as little as possible (and it’s not like it’s onerous to login to FireEagle).
Doing bits and pieces on it ad hoc. It’s just a bit of a proof of concept project, but it works quite nicely as a mobile application currently. I wanted to generate a web application in rails that was mobile, used FireEagle and did something useful, so I came up with this at Mashed 08.
Still have to implement user uploading of text, images, audio and video (all geocoded) and using Amazon S3 so it can start to be a useful tourist/local application, but it’s getting there.
And then, when that’s all done, I’ll be adding in lots of other stuff, including geocoded advertising options, so that if you’re in a city and you’re looking for stuff, ads for restaurants and hotels may come up. Cheap ad options are very very simple.
The API is still “non-commercial” though so until that changes, I can’t make money on this.
Note: Already have the code for S3 because I built another proof of concept called deadparrotimages a while back, which is a temporary image store. Images are deleted after an hour or a day. I thought it would be useful to send round images that you don’t want saved on the net forever, something like when selling an item and you don’t want everyone to know about it.
Well, mashed08 is finished and I’ve only just got round to blogging about my application. Spent yesterday at an interview and finally got a contract in Milton Keynes!
I got a large proportion of what I wanted to get done completed, but it wasn’t quite enough. I didn’t win the chumby 
The application is Travel Streamr – a simple way of viewing lonely planet information about a location, as well as seeing location specific photos (and videos) from Flickr. Also included is (will be) the ability to create an account and upload text, audio or video comments about locations. I hoped to get it integrated with FireEagle, but didn’t have time. The fact the winner did integrate with FIreEagle is neither here nor there (but I’m still slightly annoyed).
I did have a great time at Mashed 08 and met up with lots of old friends and made some new ones too. Especially enjoyed spending time with Jim “Win” Purbrick (aka Babbage LInden from Second Life) and met a couple of twitter friends and followers that I wasn’t expecting to.
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